500 Bags of Rice for Mid-Day Meal Seized in Sadabad, Uttar Pradesh
Hathras, 3 June 2025
In a shocking incident reported in Sadabad, UP on 1st June SDM Sanjay Kumar, seized about 500 sacks of rice loaded in two trucks. Reportedly, the rice belongs to Mid-Day meal scheme, a scheme which aims at providing free meal to kids in govt. school. The raid was conducted by SDM based on a confidential information.
As per the statement released by SDM Sadabad Sanjay Kumar, the rice was not being stored at the designated place in Naugaon but was being stored illegally at a place in front of the CHC in Bisawar. The truck was loaded with 500 sacks of rice; however, it was later seized on the spot before both the trucks could leave.
Police could not trace any paperwork’s, nor the records could be presented. The rice has been taken towards Aligarh for the purpose of illegal black marketing, District Supply Officer and Basic Education Department have been asked to act in this regard.
The black marketing of rice is continuing in Sadabad, under the protection of the government machinery, where cases of black marketing of rice are reported every day, then an FIR is registered but no strict actions are taken to control black marketing.